Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday April 27, 2008 Jill What have you been writing about this week? Leave your links to specific posts, and a short description, in the comments.
My experiences during this year’s Day of Silence, a youth-led protest against the “silencing” of GLBT students through discrimination and bullying.
What if someone made a “feminist” “joke” and half of his commenters said, “You know, that’s not actually funny”? What if his response to his commenters was “It is too funny! Here, let me explain it to you …”? I consider what all this says about who he thinks he’s talking to.
Busy week for me! I’m not sure if this is floating around elsewhere, but I posted the full statement by Judge Cooperman on the Sean Bell shooting verdict. I also wrote an entry to submit to The Angry Black Woman’s Carnival of Allies. And yet another post on bathrooms.
New study released in the Uk about pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. . . heartwarming, really. . . not! And I’d still like people to visit YouAreMyInspiration.org to honor your inspiration/mentor and earmark your donation towards the underserved teen girl programming of your choice.
And 76% of managers admitted that they would not hire a new recruit if they knew they were going to fall pregnant within six months of starting the job… Ok, business management 101. A successfull business relies on a consistent, experienced workforce. If a candidate is likely to become pregnant within 6 months of their start date, there is a very high likelihood that they will be taking anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months to forever off after they give birth 9 months after they become pregnant. This is contrary to the principle of an experienced, consistent workforce. Therefore, in order to increase a business’ likelihood of success a business owner should avoid hiring those likely to get pregnant. Does that make sense to you Zak?
This was just over a week ago, but I’ve not managed to get anything out since; discussing marriage with a friend, and how a necessary legal procedure hurt my queer brain.
On advertising, which sparked the debate ‘is the objectification of men rare in advertising, especially in comparison with women?’, and on Hooters coming to the UK…
Lots of blogging about the day of silence, which I organized at my school. Plus, my frustration with doctors and pharamcists who won’t dispense birth control, because it violates their “moral beliefs”.
I responded to a Fandom Women Appreciation Meme a friend of mine started and spoke about how fandom helped lead me to, and shape me as, a feminist.
On the ways the government keeps us from realizing the real cost of the war, and the disconnect from my experience of lobbying members of Congress to end the war and the visceral reality of the tragedy in Iraq.
Here are some of the feminist-oriented stuff I’ve posted this week: 1. A post on “the unfinished business of feminism,” which concerns working class feminism and work/family issues: http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/the-unfinished.html 2. A post explaining why this week’s New Republic cover of Hillary Clinton is sexist: http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/ut-in-that-it-i.html 3. A post about disability policy and the presidential candidates, which includes a section at the end about why I think disability is a feminist issue: http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/disability-poli.html 4. A smackdown of the libertarian idiocies of Megan McArdle, in which I also call out some sexist bullshit — i.e., a male blogger referring to an exchange McArdle and I had as a “catfight”: http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/coase-again.html 5. A tribute to the wonderful Dolly Parton: http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/weekend-diva–3.html I hope you enjoy some or all of them! Kathy
I responded to all the slut-shaming and victime-blaming at my school over a possible rape, discussed why other women slut-shame, and then what happened when the slut-shamers turned onto me. Oh, and also how the male students at my school are trying to make Clarence Thomas, our graduation speaker, seem like a victim.
On the danger of “forgetting” how to perform abortions, and how it parallels other politicized medical problems. I also just started The Privilege Project and I could really use some help getting it off the ground. (Brooklynite, you mentioned you had some blog posts, do you mind linking them and I’ll add them to the site?)
We were hardly alone in writing about race and privilege this week, and we did link over to Feministe in a couple of posts on those topics. I’m not sure we had any huge revelations, but I did really, really like comments made on this post about these issues. Seriously, some of my commenters are awesome.
Homophobic and anti-evolution Florida Republican Ronda Storms pushes religious speciality plates. Storms also fears “first and second-graders” will have sex if sex education is taught in public schools. The lady has been busy lately. To put it mildly.
For those who were reading the previous thread and were interested in forming a book/reading group: http://theasyetunnamedbookclub.blogspot.com/ It’s all very preliminary, so have at it.
Florida Senate member Ronda Storms has sponsored billed against evolution, and sex education because it might lead to the “prematurely deflowering kindergartners and first- and second-graders.” A couldn’t make up someone as nutty as Storms if I tried.
This week on Red Stapler… I give my official opinion of the Open Source Boob Project. If you’re sick of reading about it, feel free to go to last week’s posts about New York Comic Con.
Sorry for the double comment. Totally not your fault. FYI — our spam filter is eating comments. So if you post something and it doesn’t show up and doesn’t say “awaiting moderation,” it’s in the spam queue. I try to clear it out as much as possible, but we get a ton of spam so sometimes I miss legitimate comments. Feel free to email me if a comment disappears.
On… John McCain’s disposition to protect big business versus the individual citizen, mainly women… basically we should all just take it when we’re not being paid fairly. ugh.
I’ve been working on creating a high fantasy book/comic, I’ve already got a lot of characters set out (main party is a female mage, female rogue and a male druid) only thing I’m having issue with is coming up with a good plot. Now high fantasy is pretty rife with steriotypes and sexist cliches so I was wondering if anyone would like to drop me a line on things they’d like to see or are sick of seeing in fantasy stories (goes withought saying there aren’t going to be any chain mail bikinies in this story)
On reading Roots (and a round up of some recent Gambian news, just because that’s where Kunta Kinte came from).
I’ve launched a big new blog on student activism, past and present. The blog is here, and the announcement post at my regular blog is here. If you’ve got suggestions for links or news I should be featuring there, please pass them along.
Well, first I gotta plug mah blog again: Pregnant Dug-Dealing Prostitutes. So I wrote one blog article ( a few days back) on about the reasons why I feel strongly about fighting against stereotypes called Preparing for Death. Because you know, I’m all RADICAL asking for the right to be considered human as a woman and all that crazy enka. Also, I’d like to plug the Introduction in a series that my co-conspirator, Davitta Cuttita is writing called How Black is Black? Do enjoy.
I wrote a post on stuff I learned from romance novels. I’m really disappointed with the latest one I bought though. Maybe because I’m reading it with a feminist eye now and I’m seeing the hero’s actions as really despicable. I may write about it soon.
This week I wrote about being groped on the subway, sex work in Canada, and dealing with my various disorders.
I’ve decided that menstrual blood has magical powers, yearly birth control costs are crazy expensive, and that the “untooning” of Jessica Rabbit isn’t helping out either. My friend Kate had something to say about the ultrasound legislation in Oklahoma and her and Amelia attended a John Ashcroft speech. Jen addressed pedophilia and the misogyny that is Rock of Love.
I posted about gender, sexuality, dancehall and style in Jamaica, inspired by a friend’s post on being a jamaican man in the NY House scene in the 1980s.
I finally updated my blog after catching the past few episodes of The Colbert Report. Ugh. Also, for those living in Chicago, I am reviving the HollabackChitown site and I would love to hear your tales of street harassment. I am sure you have plenty!
I drop my atheism for new belief in a Balloon Religion… Other than that, I was kinda lazy this week. Well, busy really.
I started a blog last Monday. I have been reading them for awhile and finally decided to add my own voice to the mix. I called it womanist musings. It focuses on how race, class and gender effect black women. So far I most proud of my first post which is entitled womanist manifesto, in which I declare the reasons why I am a feminist.
Okay, I’m on my sidekick so I have to just type the links. No one knows me but, my best friend and I just started a hollaback for Tampa Bay and Orlando, Florida (we looked for one to post on and couldn’t find one, soooo….). And we also started a magazine. Well, here’s the links. http://www.myspace.com/fbombzine http://hollabacktampaorlando.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/hollabacktampaorlando They’re still being worked on.
I did a post on the “outcry” at sexualized ads in an Abercrombie store that happened a bit back. Sexualized Ads Become “Obscene” When Guys are the Objects
I reflected on how a progressing disability has affected life, on the ways disabled folks are vulnerable to the ones we depend on, and the omnipresent feeling of burdening others with the unique needs our disabilities present.
Does New York Magazine really think that (attempted) date rape falls under the type of relationship action as hooking up with someone or losing your virginity to them? And why is a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship different from that dirty sex thing?
I updated my blog almost daily last week, because I was so busy trying to avoid work, er, had so much to talk about. For instance, I blogged about Bitter-gate and made a prediction about what will, IMHO, be one of McCain’s key campaign themes.
Check out my activist blog for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Asexual, and Intersexual community. http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
I’ve been writing about whether or not men can be truly feminist, can white people be truly anti-racist, privilege…
Aw, damn. I’m late. Anyway, a while back I wrote an article about fat hate in The Megaphone, our campus newspaper. It evoked a nasty response from a student named Lane Hill, and this is my reply to him.
Torri: I vastly recommend Limyaael’s Fantasy Rants. Not only do they cover every fantasy and writing topic imaginable, but they also cover feminist fantasy, heroines, LGBT in fantasy, etc, etc. Do note they are rants, so they’re pretty snarky. Not like that’s a bad thing.